Kids Dancing Together At A Birthday Party Coloring Page

Two children have taken each other by the hands and are turning on the spot. The boy on the left is in a short sleeved top and long trousers with laced shoes, leaning in; the girl on the right is in a sleeveless dress with a collar and plain flat shoes. Both are laughing, and all four feet stay on the floor. Strung above them is a line of eight plain bunting triangles, and three balloons float at the corners, two bunched on the left with their strings trailing and one on the right. Over at the right edge stands a two tier round cake with five candles on top, a row of small beads around the upper tier and dots scattered down the side.

The bunting is deliberately plain, eight identical empty triangles, which makes it the easiest place to set up a repeating pattern that ties the whole page together.

Count the candles with your child before starting. Five is a specific age, and it may or may not be theirs.

The birthday cake with candles comes from eighteenth century Germany, where a candle was lit at dawn and kept burning all day, with one extra for the year ahead. Blowing them out came later.